America’s most expensive weapons system ever just hit another snag.

The F-35 Lighting II, Lockheed Martin’s fifth-generation fighter jet, is expected to miss a crucial deadline for successfully deploying its sixth and final software release — referred to as Block 3F.

Block 3F is part of the 8 million lines of sophisticated software code that underpin the F-35.

In short, if the code fails, the F-35 fails.

The latest setback for the F-35 stems from a 48-paged December 11 report from Michael Gilmore, the Pentagon’s top weapons tester.

According to Gilmore, the read more >>>

Source : BusinessInsider.Com